English 2010: Intercultural Writing SectionSpring Semester, 2016 Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30-11:45 am, Elizabeth Hall 206 INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Tim Conrad; tconrad@weber.edu; Elizabeth Hall 257 (my OFFICE); Office HOURS: make an APPOINTMENT with me for the best day/time to meet together.You can text me to make meetings: 801-349-5418. TEXTBOOKS:Metaphor and Weber Writes
COURSE OBJECTIVES & GRADING INFORMATION:
In this class, you will study both personal and academic writing with students from a variety of language and cultural backgrounds. This is a face-to-face course which uses supplemental online communication and writing tools. During class you will practice your writing skills through individualized assignments, peer interaction (pairs and small groups), and whole-class discussion. Much of the content of the course will be based on your own ideas and writing that you create during class or bring to the class from homework assignments. See sidebar page "Coursework Schedule" for the aspects of writing we will study and practice each week. See the sidebar "Learning Outcomes" about our targeted goals based on our course schedule of writing themes, papers, and activities.
Assessments and Point Distribution:
1) You will read a BOOK this semester that is significant and interesting to you and keep weekly NOTES about the book, either using print or online writing tools. See the sidebar page called "Choosing YourBook," for a more detailed explanation. By the end of the semester, you will write a 2-page, 750-word, double-spaced (about 8 paragraphs) review of your book based on your ongoing reading journal of interactive notes you will have kept throughout the semester (see "Sample Book Review"). You will earn 50 points for the essay book review and 50 points for your reading log entries you will display on the sidebar page of your wikispaces portfolio. These will be placed in your online portfolio, final drafts due by the last day of final exams: Thursday, April 28. TOTAL: 100 PTS.
2) You will write three essays. First, a personal profile (750 words); a significant personal experience (also 750 words), and an argumentative paper with sources documented according to MLA style (1,000 words, 3-4 pages). See the sidebar page "Personal Profiles" for an explanation and sample essay. Email your final draft of each essay to me: tconrad@weber.edu. The personal profile paper will be due on Thursday, February 18, the significant personal experience on Thursday, March 17 (make sure it includes at least one strong outside source, including your own intro and analysis of the source), and the argumentative paper on Thursday, April 14 (with at least four carefully integrated sources). Each paper is worth 100 points. TOTAL: 300 PTS.
3) You will write six polished, 150-word brief papers based on your book journal (ongoing notes as you read through your book) or in-class writing practice we will be doing throughout the semester. Sometimes such papers are called "shorts" or micro-essays, stories, summaries, reflections, or poems. You will find that micro writing can also easily be expanded into longer work whenever you might like to do so, providing more examples, details, and description. Post your shorts on the sidebar pages labeled "Shorts 1-6" (date to post is also shown). Your classmates will be reading and commenting on your short papers. Here are the dates each short should be posted: Thursday, Jan 21, Tuesday, Feb. 9, Thursday, March 3, Tuesday, March 29, and Tuesday, April 12, and the last Short Paper 6, you will put directly in your final online portfolio: 50 points each. TOTAL: 300 PTS.
4) You will learn how to create your own wikispaces online portfolio to display the final-draft writing you will have done throughout the semester. See the sidebar page called "Online Portfolio." The online portfolio will count for 200 Points of your grade.
5) Class Attendance & In-Class Work: 25 Classes: Three missed classes will not count against you. I will start keeping attendance the second week of class: *4 points per class. TOTAL: 100 PTS. 6) Keep track of your earlier drafts for all your papers. In certain cases, especially for example in terms of work completed late, I will require you to turn in examples of earlier drafts of each of your papers you submit for a grade. Without the drafts of your self and peer editing, you will not receive any points for your work.
--TOTAL POINTS: 1000: 900: 90%-100% (A-, A); 800-900 (B-, B, B+); 700-800 (C-, C, C+), and so on.
*UNIVERSITY COURSE RESOURCES & REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL STUDENTS: See the sidebar page, "WSU Requirements."
*TRACK YOUR GRADE: You can track your own grade throughout the semester as you complete the REQUIRED WORK. With the following grade calculator tool, you can easily check your grade whenever you like: http://apps.mercer.edu/registrarcalc/pointsbased.html. You can also message me through our course wikispaces or email me if you have questions about your grade at any time during the semester.
WORKLOAD EXPECTATIONS: You should expect to be doing about 3-4 hours of work outside class for each hour in class. Please communicate with me if course requirements are overloading you beyond these expectations. I realize that you have other classwork, family, and work responsibilities competing for your time.
LATE WORK:
Face-to-Face Classwork & Late-Submitted Assignments: This course is a face-to-face course which also uses online tools, resources, and a course wikispace. Because it is a face-to-face course, attendance is required and counts for an important part of your grade. Required assignments must be submitted on the required completion dates. If you have a good excuse, you can get me an assignment one week late, but not any later, or you will lose all the points for that essay or other assignment. If I ask you to do a rewrite, get your revised paper to me one week after you have been asked to rewrite it so that you do not lose the points for the paper. You may have one rewrite to improve your score after I have given you the grade for a paper.
ACCOMMODATIONS: Any student requiring accommodations or services because of a disability may contact Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) in room 181 of the Student Service Center. SSD can also arrange to provide materials (including this syllabus, handouts, and exams) in alternative formats if necessary.
ACADEMIC ETHICS: All students are expected to fulfill the rights and responsibilities outlined in the WSU Student Code. It is your first-amendment right, and responsibility as an engaged citizen of your country, to express your point of view in class discussion and writing. What you have to say is interesting; in fact, vital for dynamic, university-level discourse. If you disagree with class readings or points of view, speak up and explain why, either during classroom discussion or through papers you write for class. Don’t be afraid to set up a meeting with me in my office if something is bothering you about the class. Your grade is based on the quality of your academic work and not on your personal, political, or religious views. At the same time, it is important to learn to be tolerant and respectful of others in the ways you respond to their beliefs and experiences. In addition, because university and professional research depend on academic honesty, it is the expectation in this course that you will complete all assignments/exams without resort to cheating, plagiarism, lying and/or bribery. Students who commit infractions of the WSU Student Code will be dealt with according to procedures outlined in the Code. Penalties could include receiving a failing grade for an assignment or for the entire course, or even facing suspension from school.
English 2010: Intercultural Writing SectionSpring Semester, 2016
Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30-11:45 am, Elizabeth Hall 206
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Tim Conrad; tconrad@weber.edu; Elizabeth Hall 257 (my OFFICE); Office HOURS: make an APPOINTMENT with me for the best day/time to meet together.You can text me to make meetings: 801-349-5418.
TEXTBOOKS: Metaphor and Weber Writes
COURSE OBJECTIVES & GRADING INFORMATION:
In this class, you will study both personal and academic writing with students from a variety of language and cultural backgrounds. This is a face-to-face course which uses supplemental online communication and writing tools. During class you will practice your writing skills through individualized assignments, peer interaction (pairs and small groups), and whole-class discussion. Much of the content of the course will be based on your own ideas and writing that you create during class or bring to the class from homework assignments. See sidebar page "Coursework Schedule" for the aspects of writing we will study and practice each week. See the sidebar "Learning Outcomes" about our targeted goals based on our course schedule of writing themes, papers, and activities.
Assessments and Point Distribution:
1) You will read a BOOK this semester that is significant and interesting to you and keep weekly NOTES about the book, either using print or online writing tools. See the sidebar page called "Choosing Your Book," for a more detailed explanation. By the end of the semester, you will write a 2-page, 750-word, double-spaced (about 8 paragraphs) review of your book based on your ongoing reading journal of interactive notes you will have kept throughout the semester (see "Sample Book Review"). You will earn 50 points for the essay book review and 50 points for your reading log entries you will display on the sidebar page of your wikispaces portfolio. These will be placed in your online portfolio, final drafts due by the last day of final exams: Thursday, April 28. TOTAL: 100 PTS.
2) You will write three essays. First, a personal profile (750 words); a significant personal experience (also 750 words), and an argumentative paper with sources documented according to MLA style (1,000 words, 3-4 pages). See the sidebar page "Personal Profiles" for an explanation and sample essay. Email your final draft of each essay to me: tconrad@weber.edu. The personal profile paper will be due on Thursday, February 18, the significant personal experience on Thursday, March 17 (make sure it includes at least one strong outside source, including your own intro and analysis of the source), and the argumentative paper on Thursday, April 14 (with at least four carefully integrated sources). Each paper is worth 100 points. TOTAL: 300 PTS.
3) You will write six polished, 150-word brief papers based on your book journal (ongoing notes as you read through your book) or in-class writing practice we will be doing throughout the semester. Sometimes such papers are called "shorts" or micro-essays, stories, summaries, reflections, or poems. You will find that micro writing can also easily be expanded into longer work whenever you might like to do so, providing more examples, details, and description. Post your shorts on the sidebar pages labeled "Shorts 1-6" (date to post is also shown). Your classmates will be reading and commenting on your short papers. Here are the dates each short should be posted: Thursday, Jan 21, Tuesday, Feb. 9, Thursday, March 3, Tuesday, March 29, and Tuesday, April 12, and the last Short Paper 6, you will put directly in your final online portfolio: 50 points each. TOTAL: 300 PTS.
4) You will learn how to create your own wikispaces online portfolio to display the final-draft writing you will have done throughout the semester. See the sidebar page called "Online Portfolio." The online portfolio will count for 200 Points of your grade.
5) Class Attendance & In-Class Work: 25 Classes: Three missed classes will not count against you. I will start keeping attendance the second week of class: *4 points per class. TOTAL: 100 PTS.
6) Keep track of your earlier drafts for all your papers. In certain cases, especially for example in terms of work completed late, I will require you to turn in examples of earlier drafts of each of your papers you submit for a grade. Without the drafts of your self and peer editing, you will not receive any points for your work.
--TOTAL POINTS: 1000: 900: 90%-100% (A-, A); 800-900 (B-, B, B+); 700-800 (C-, C, C+), and so on.
*UNIVERSITY COURSE RESOURCES & REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL STUDENTS: See the sidebar page, "WSU Requirements."
*TRACK YOUR GRADE: You can track your own grade throughout the semester as you complete the REQUIRED WORK. With the following grade calculator tool, you can easily check your grade whenever you like: http://apps.mercer.edu/registrarcalc/pointsbased.html. You can also message me through our course wikispaces or email me if you have questions about your grade at any time during the semester.
WORKLOAD EXPECTATIONS: You should expect to be doing about 3-4 hours of work outside class for each hour in class. Please communicate with me if course requirements are overloading you beyond these expectations. I realize that you have other classwork, family, and work responsibilities competing for your time.
LATE WORK:
Face-to-Face Classwork & Late-Submitted Assignments: This course is a face-to-face course which also uses online tools, resources, and a course wikispace. Because it is a face-to-face course, attendance is required and counts for an important part of your grade. Required assignments must be submitted on the required completion dates. If you have a good excuse, you can get me an assignment one week late, but not any later, or you will lose all the points for that essay or other assignment. If I ask you to do a rewrite, get your revised paper to me one week after you have been asked to rewrite it so that you do not lose the points for the paper. You may have one rewrite to improve your score after I have given you the grade for a paper.
ACCOMMODATIONS: Any student requiring accommodations or services because of a disability may contact Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) in room 181 of the Student Service Center. SSD can also arrange to provide materials (including this syllabus, handouts, and exams) in alternative formats if necessary.
ACADEMIC ETHICS: All students are expected to fulfill the rights and responsibilities outlined in the WSU Student Code. It is your first-amendment right, and responsibility as an engaged citizen of your country, to express your point of view in class discussion and writing. What you have to say is interesting; in fact, vital for dynamic, university-level discourse. If you disagree with class readings or points of view, speak up and explain why, either during classroom discussion or through papers you write for class. Don’t be afraid to set up a meeting with me in my office if something is bothering you about the class. Your grade is based on the quality of your academic work and not on your personal, political, or religious views. At the same time, it is important to learn to be tolerant and respectful of others in the ways you respond to their beliefs and experiences. In addition, because university and professional research depend on academic honesty, it is the expectation in this course that you will complete all assignments/exams without resort to cheating, plagiarism, lying and/or bribery. Students who commit infractions of the WSU Student Code will be dealt with according to procedures outlined in the Code. Penalties could include receiving a failing grade for an assignment or for the entire course, or even facing suspension from school.